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2007-11-12 21:34:26 UTC
Cuba: Progress Report on Recovery from Torrential Rains
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Progress Report: Recovering from Damage Inflicted by Heavy Rains
Bayamo, eastern Cuba, Nov 12 (acn) Cubans in eastern Granma province
intensify recovery actions to clean the damage inflicted by heavy rains
and floods that affected this territory over the past weeks. The repair
of roads, distribution of construction materials to rebuild damaged
houses and the return of thousands evacuees home have been major
actions in the eastern territory over the past days. Sources with the
Provincial Defense Council recalled that during the peak of the natural
phenomenon, some 42,953 persons were evacuated to safe places.
Preventive measures against any possible epidemiological outbreak are a
priority, particularly in the municipality known as Rio Cauto, where
overflowed rivers and lagoons killed thousands of animals.
The Provincial Defense authority said that the road system and the
agriculture sector have been severely damaged, when the impact on
housing has not yet been completely assessed since a large number of
homes are still flooded. Latest report says that some 19,917 homes
were affected, with over 1000 of them totally collapsed.
The combination of adverse weather phenomena led up to a complex
situation in the province of Granma, said the head of Operations of the
Cuban Armed Forces, division general Leonardo Andoyo, who stressed the
need for the country to prepare for the worse situation every time such
a phenomenon could take place. On October 29, heavy rains associated
with tropical storm Noel began to affect the eastern province;
rainfalls intensified during the first week of November, which caused
huge floods in several municipalities in the region. The
over-saturation of the land plus South winds and heavy sea in the
Guacanayabo Gulf caused overflowed rivers, lagoons, reservoirs and
Canals, whose flow into the sea turned very difficult.
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Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Agencia Cubana de Noticias (ACN)
http://ainch.ain.cu/mailman/listinfo/ingles
Progress Report: Recovering from Damage Inflicted by Heavy Rains
Bayamo, eastern Cuba, Nov 12 (acn) Cubans in eastern Granma province
intensify recovery actions to clean the damage inflicted by heavy rains
and floods that affected this territory over the past weeks. The repair
of roads, distribution of construction materials to rebuild damaged
houses and the return of thousands evacuees home have been major
actions in the eastern territory over the past days. Sources with the
Provincial Defense Council recalled that during the peak of the natural
phenomenon, some 42,953 persons were evacuated to safe places.
Preventive measures against any possible epidemiological outbreak are a
priority, particularly in the municipality known as Rio Cauto, where
overflowed rivers and lagoons killed thousands of animals.
The Provincial Defense authority said that the road system and the
agriculture sector have been severely damaged, when the impact on
housing has not yet been completely assessed since a large number of
homes are still flooded. Latest report says that some 19,917 homes
were affected, with over 1000 of them totally collapsed.
The combination of adverse weather phenomena led up to a complex
situation in the province of Granma, said the head of Operations of the
Cuban Armed Forces, division general Leonardo Andoyo, who stressed the
need for the country to prepare for the worse situation every time such
a phenomenon could take place. On October 29, heavy rains associated
with tropical storm Noel began to affect the eastern province;
rainfalls intensified during the first week of November, which caused
huge floods in several municipalities in the region. The
over-saturation of the land plus South winds and heavy sea in the
Guacanayabo Gulf caused overflowed rivers, lagoons, reservoirs and
Canals, whose flow into the sea turned very difficult.
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